4 main types of artificial intelligence: explained
Back to Topic
Click to Print
Useful Websites
Glossary Term Selection
How close are we to creating an artificial superintelligence that surpasses the human mind? Though we aren’t close, the pace is quickening as we develop more advanced types of AI.
By Alexander S. Gillis
Superintelligent AI could be humanity’s last invention. Developing a type of AI that’s so sophisticated, it can create AI entities with even greater intelligence could change human-made invention forever. Such entities would surpass human intelligence and reach superhuman achievements.
How close are we to creating AI that surpasses the human mind? The short answer is not very close, but the pace is quickening since the modern field of AI began in the 1950s.
In the 1950s and 1960s, AI advanced dramatically as computer scientists, mathematicians and experts in other fields improved the algorithms and hardware. Despite assertions by AI’s pioneers that a thinking machine comparable to the human brain was imminent, the goal proved elusive, and support for the field waned. AI research wen...
Want to see the rest of this article?
Would you like to see the rest of this article and all the other benefits that Issues Online can provide with?
- Useful related articles
- Video and multimedia references
- Statistical information and reference material
- Glossary of terms
- Key Facts and figures
- Related assignments
- Resource material and websites
